Bogdan Bogdanovic signs w/Hawks 4yrs, 72m (Kings Chose To Not Match)

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Beat me to it. I just saw that and thought: culture change piece. Bravo Schlenk. Play the right way and play hard 110%. This guy, this is my kinda guy.

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Honestly, you have to like a guy with his hubris, don't you? He has higher expectations of himself than it seems most independent observers do.

Haven't studied his defense, but have taken note in highlight clips of his ability to get in to passing lanes and to disrupt ballhandlers and end up with steals. He's not quick, but he's not slow. And he's very smart on the court.

If that part of his game ramps up a notch, damn, he's going to be a steal at $18m x 4.

Even worst case where Reddish nor Hunter nor Huerter develop into anything special, BogBog might very well become an All-Star, and with Trae and JC become the foundation for some of the Hawks' very best days ever. I hate to leave out Capela in that equation, because it's like forgetting about Tree Rollins' importance to our late 80s success. But Doc/Trae, Nique/BogBog, and Willis/JC could be the headliners when people talk about the new EC threat Atlanta Hawks.

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The Atlanta Hawks offered the Sacramento Kings a 2022 first round pick belonging to the Oklahoma City Thunder in a sign-and-trade for Bogdan Bogdanovic, sources tell Sam Amick of The Athletic.

The Kings rejected the offer, which led the Hawks to be concerned that their four-year, $72 million offer sheet to Bogdanovic would be matched.

Updated from Amick:

(UPDATE: In fairness to the Kings and first-year general manager Monte McNair, there’s more context here that I’ve gleaned since the publication of this piece this morning. Sources say the Hawks’ offer of the 2022 first rounder also included the Kings taking on Tony Snell and his expiring deal worth $12.1 million. What’s more, sources say there was no clarity given (or asked for) regarding the exact size of the Bogdanovic deal and, thus, made it tougher for the Kings to determine whether they’d want to match if — as would happen — he ultimately signed an offer sheet with the Hawks. There was a time element attached to the offer, too, with the Hawks asking for an answer within an hour and the Kings, who had asked for some of Atlanta’s younger players to no avail, ultimately declining. There’s strong reason to believe the Hawks would have done the deal without Snell and just for the 2022 first-rounder — which, again, will very likely turn into two seconds — but sources say that scenario was not discussed.)

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/260706/Hawks-Offered-2022-First-Round-Pick-From-Thunder-To-Kings-For-Bogdan-Bogdanovic

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This intel adds fuel to rumors swirling that Schlenk has even been trying to move Snell within the last several days.

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Hate to pile on, but the Kings really blew it. Instead of "give us a young player," they should've countered with "give us the pick and not Snell." How much Bogi was getting from the Hawks was not their problem to worry about.

As a result, they got nothing and the Hawks had to include that trade kicker I'm sure they'd prefer wasn't there.

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Monte McNair as the KINGS GM...Just wow! The fan base must be pleased with his decision to reject the 2022 first round pick. Unbelievable!

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[Spud2nique]

Back on track Bogi caught fire!

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Not so fast

Bogdan Bogdanovic explained his side of his controversial restricted free agency in an interview with Sam Amick of The Athletic.

Reports surfaced before the start of free agency that the Milwaukee Bucks and Sacramento Kings had a sign-and-trade deal in place involving Bogdanovic.

The confusion over how that happened remains to this day for Bogdanovic.

The sign-and-trade was reported while Bogdanovic was asleep in Serbia.

"Everyone was congratulating me like it was done, and I didn’t know what was going on, really," said Bogdanovic. "And then, the NBA investigation — again, I’m reading it off the Twitter again, what was going on. My agent was obviously telling me, but what was unprofessional out of everything was not letting the player know, not letting him know what was going on. It was 1 a.m., 2 a.m. in (Belgrade) and I was sleeping. And I was sleeping the whole night. I wake up in the morning, I’m getting ready for my workout, and I see that on the Twitter. That was my experience of my free agency. After that, I was scared."

The sign-and-trade couldn't actually be agreed upon without the approval of Bogdanovic.

"Yeah, but they couldn’t do that before free agency starts, so the next day the NBA investigation got in. My agent called me, and he told me, ‘This cannot be done. They screwed up. They cannot trade a restricted free agent before free agency starts.’ I really don’t know. I really don’t know what happened. But that was, at the end, what I heard from my agent. The NBA investigation is on this deal, so even if we agree, they can say this doesn’t count, that this is tampering."

https://theathletic.com/2302892/2021/01/05/bogdan-bogdanovic-bucks-hawks-kings-trade-details/

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As well as can be!

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My guess is Bogi will be back after the Allstar Break.

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[D21]

Not too fast, not too fast... we can wait one more week if it can help him being 100% well.

[jayu70]

I don't think he comes back before the break.

[jayu70]

Per Schlenk:
Schlenk did say he wasn’t sure if Bogdanovic will be the team’s starting shooting guard when he’s off his minutes restriction, as it hasn’t been a topic of conversation with McMillan yet. Kevin Huerter has started in place of Bogdanovic in the meantime.